Study of creep behavior of a calcarenite: San Julián´s stone (Alicante)

Authors

  • V. Brotóns Universidad de Alicante
  • S. Ivorra Universidad de Alicante
  • J. Martínez-Martínez Unidad Asociada CSIC- Universidad de Alicante
  • R. Tomás Universidad de Alicante
  • D. Benavente Unidad Asociada CSIC- Universidad de Alicante

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/mc.2013.06412

Keywords:

rheological model, creep, soft rock, limestone, calcarenite

Abstract


Rocks creep has a great importance in the evaluation of the long-term behaviour of elements built with or within these materials. In this work, a porous well-known limestone locally named as San Julián stone has been physically and mechanically characterized. Uniaxial compressive tests for 96 h. at constant stress are carried out. Long-term behaviour has been modelled by means of a well-known creep model, the CEB-FIP Model code 2010, used for modelling other stony-material (i.e. concrete). Furthermore, a rheological model has been proposed. The main aim of this work is to investigate the possibility of exploiting the vast experience accumulated in the study of concrete deformational long-term behaviour in order to obtaining a reasonable approach to the behaviour of the rock, for too long testing times difficult to implement in laboratory. A creep function adapted to the studied rock only dependent on its elastic and mechanical characteristics is also proposed in this work.

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2013-12-30

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Brotóns, V., Ivorra, S., Martínez-Martínez, J., Tomás, R., & Benavente, D. (2013). Study of creep behavior of a calcarenite: San Julián´s stone (Alicante). Materiales De Construcción, 63(312), 581–595. https://doi.org/10.3989/mc.2013.06412

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